Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:21:18 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Paul Walsh <paul@nation-net.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nvi saved the file 3warks.txt?? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961125231937.1884P-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <32997AED.7058@nation-net.com>
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On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Paul Walsh wrote: > Anyone know what this means. I have never heard of this .txt file and > why did nvi take 2 weeks to tell me about it? 1. You hadn't rebooted the machine in two weeks, or it took a couple of cycles to some back up. 2. You rebooted the machine in the middle of a file edit and vi saved the file before it quit. You can run the command, then just :q! to quit and not save the file if you don't care for it. Or save it if you really do want it. > > On Wed Oct 30 15:34:54 1996, the user root was editing a > > file named 3warks.txt on the machine www.walshsimmons.co.uk, > > when it was saved for recovery. You can recover most, if not > > all, of the changes to this file using the -r option to nex > > or nvi: > > > > nvi -r 3warks.txt Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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